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2015 Free Golf Program features nine Long Island courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

May 5, 2015

The turn of the calendar from April to May means "Free Golf" certificates courtesy of Hicksville-based Golfing Magazine are on their way to players around Long Island. This year's program includes nine Long Island golf courses, seven of which are in Suffolk County, plus free golf around the Northeast and other area perks. All of […]

From clubs to concrete: Nassau County’s “Hub” was once a hotbed of local golf

18-hole, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

May 1, 2015

Time is up in Uniondale, where the New York Islanders have played their final games as Nassau residents and will now head west to build on their history in Brooklyn. When the clock hit zero earlier this week, a longtime fixture in the county’92s ’93Hub’94 became a thing of the past. It is not the

Three Suffolk courses partnering for a spring “Golf Trifecta” special

18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, Suffolk Courses

April 28, 2015

The Links and Woods courses at Cherry Creek in Riverhead and Pine Ridge Golf Club in Coram are teaming up this spring to offer Long Island players a "Golf Trifecta" discount on three rounds early in the season. The Trifecta special includes one round at each course — Cherry Creek's lengthy, driver-friendly Links Course, the

Seventh annual Knights of Columbus charity golf outing at Rock Hill on May 1

18-hole, Suffolk Courses

April 21, 2015

Knights of Columbus Council #5817 will support Boots on the Ground NY, the Lieutenant Michael O'Shea Memorial Service Award Fund and the Sergeant Jonathan Keller Memorial Scholarship Fund at this year's seventh annual charity golf outing, which will take place on Friday, May 1 at Rock Hill Golf & Country Club in Manorville. Registration fee

Future of former Calverton Links may be in solar energy

18-hole, In the News, Suffolk Courses

April 20, 2015

The former Calverton Links golf course will likely become a solar farm, according to an article published last month in the Riverhead News-Review. The course, which has sat untouched since it abruptly closed for business in the fall of 2013, was sold last May for $3.5 million to developer Parviz Farahzad and a group called

New hole configuration for 2015 season at The Golf Club at Middle Bay

18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, Nassau Courses, South Shore

April 14, 2015

The 2015 season is underway in Oceanside at The Golf Club at Middle Bay, though players eager to get to the course's signature waterfront holes will have to take a few extra swings before reaching them. Middle Bay's new hole configuration made its debut earlier this month, amid other upgrades around the facility. The course

April aeration special at Great Rock

18-hole, Course Promos and Updates, Suffolk Courses

April 9, 2015

Great Rock Golf Club in Wading River is reopening for the 2015 season on Friday, April 10, and since the course was recently aerated, special rates are in effect through the end of the month. Players can get out at Great Rock for aeration rates as low as $29 with cart on weekday afternoons. Weekday

Spring aeration on the schedule at Bethpage

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

March 31, 2015

Now that the golf courses at Bethpage State Park are finally reopening for early-season play, they'll each be shutting down briefly in April for spring aeration. First up is the Blue Course, which will be aerated next week on April 6 and 7. The rest of the schedule is as follows: Red Course: April 13-14Yellow

2015 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Off-Course Destinations, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

March 27, 2015

[Looking for this year's camp info? See the Guide to 2024 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island.] The 2015 Long Island golf season has gone through a couple of weather-related false starts, keeping golfers of all ages confined away from local courses. Unaffected, thankfully, by the endless transition from winter to spring is the summer

Bethpage Black tentatively scheduled for April 11 opening

18-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

March 25, 2015

Late-winter snow has kept Bethpage State Park's Blue and Yellow courses quiet through most of the offseason and almost all of March, but the Black Course remains on track for its usual mid-April opening. The park announced this week that the Black Course will open for the 2015 season on Saturday, April 11, provided the